Darkness, Depression Converges in the Cinema Too

So Dark Knight comes along and takes over a billion dollars at the box office. The world is aware of the darkness, hence the breathless anticipation for the dense and dark Watchmen. Funny - or perhaps not so funny - we aren't prepared to deal with grim reality, just grim fantasy.

clipped from www.wired.com It's strange, because when Watchmen was out, The Dark Knight Returns was also out, which was Frank Miller's version of a very dark Batman. So you had The Dark Knight and Watchmen together then at that particular point in comic book history. You've now got The Dark Knight and Watchmen together at this particular point in comic movie history, and I think that the moviegoing public is now familiar enough with the superhero movie, indeed has grown up with the superhero movie, to the point that Watchmen can ask the questions and people will understand the resonance of the questions and the kind of the icons that are being smashed.